[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: "Russia Updates Maps of Radioactive Debris Sunk in Arctic"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Russia Updates Maps of Radioactive Debris Sunk in Arctic

BY CHARLES DIGGES 
Maritime Executive
October 15, 2018

Russian scientists have said that radioactive waste sunk in the Arctic by the Soviet Navy has not leaked any contamination, but have urged Moscow to continue funding observation of the underwater nuclear wrecks.

Data on the scuttled cargoes –– which includes several thousand containers of radioactive waste, as well as an entire nuclear submarine –– come from a month-and-a-half-long expedition in the Kara Sea conducted by the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oceanology.

Mikhail Flint, the institute’s head, told reporters last week that scientists on the expedition had managed to significantly improve their maps of where the sunken waste lies, especially in the area of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, a former Soviet nuclear bomb testing site.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/russia-updates-maps-of-radioactive-debris-sunk-in-arctic

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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